I understand Twitter/X provides you another monetization source, and a convenient way to do that.
But I'm not interested in that platform - I'm targeted enough, and I'm not addicted to hanging on your every word either. I appreciate your platform, particularly the forum and the comraderie of other engineers here - but I'm not interested in following anybody in the first place, much less putting up with yet more targeted ads & other 'noise' that others here have pointed out.
I get that Dave’s response was a bit harsh and could be read as “either do as I want or get lost”, if no further details were provided. But, when you answered, these were already present. So, trying to approach this constructively, what is the goal of your post and where is the problem, exactly?
I can imagine four cases. Correct me, if I missed something.
Case I: you’re already in Alphabet’s inventory. If yes, what’s the problem of being in X’s? Just waive your rights once more.
Case II: you avoid being in Alphabet’s inventory by, speaking euphemistically, using alternative access routes. Then… do the same for X?
Case III: nobody’s perfect and you happened to already be in Alphabet’s inventory, but wish to still limit the problem in general. The solution seems the same as in case II.
Case IV: your worry is the mere concept of the communication method promoted by X and you wish to avoid this. Right, that makes sense. But how would Dave post that kind of information, so it was noticed
and wouldn’t require him to go and manually type things on every platform EEVblog is present at? Be reasonable, he is a human too. And don’t point to the hypothetical use of a program, that disperses messages to multiple platforms, unless you can point to one that can be trusted, works on all gear Dave uses, and can be setup easily by a person with no relevant skills.
I suppose the only thing I could complain about here, is that Dave could skip the “if you follow me on Twitter you'd know.”
It’s also worth noting, that there is an
official blog entry, which also contains a direct download link. And Dave is posting to platforms other than YouTube. None of these were affected, if I understand correctly.